ROMANCE
IN REAL LIFE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935.
GIANT BRITISH OCEAN LINER NEARING COMPLETION
Joan Crawford' and Franchot Pane, whose marriage before a New Jersey sheriff carly this week took Holly. wood by surprise. They have co-starred in "No More Ladies," "Dancing Lady" and "Sadie McKoe". lived hap pily ever after in coch.
The giant Cunard 'steamship “Queen Mary” rapidly nears completion for her maiden transatlantic voyage naxt year. Note that, siraady two of the ship's three funnela are in position, while elaborato interiors are nearly ready. The Queen Mary is the world's second largest steamship.
SCIENTIST IN SUBMARINE TORPEDOES WORLD
FOUND THAT CONTINENTS ARE DIFFERENT SHAPES
Tilbury (Essex), Oct. 1. * PROFESSOR VENING MEINESZ, of Utrecht University, has just completed a 23,000-mile voyage in a subma- rine specially lent to him by the Dutch Admiralty.
When he arrived at Tilbury in the Dutch cargo steamer Tajandoen, Professor Meinesz told about his scientific experiments which were carried out more than a hundred feet below the surface of the ocean.
"For years I have wanted to measure the gravity of earth in different parts of the world more accurately than it has ever been measured before. I assembled the necessary apparatus, but that was not enough.
Jackie Coogan's Romance Becomes A Mystery
TOBY WING REPORTS ENGAGEMENT BUT HE DENIES IT
THERE is a mystery about the romance of Jackie Coogan and Toby Wing, the 19-years-old film star. While Miss Wing announced that they are engaged, Jackie Coogan himself denies it and says that the ring he gave her was "just a token of friendship."
WITH the infectious excite-
ment of a girl in love, Miss Toby Wing, the 19-year-old blonde girl actress. recently authorised reports of the child- hood romance which, after cleven years, has led to her en- gagement to Mr. Jackie Coogan, the famous child star of silent film days.
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Jackie Coogan is a child star no longer. He was 21 last
month...
Though already threshold
on
the
of fame herself, though readily admitting the film colony's forbidding record of romances gone away, Miss Wing was confident.
"Jackio and I have known one another for years and years,” she anid.
"We first met when he was great big star and i was just a small-part actress. He
and I was elght!
Studio Playmates
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"He was the star of a film called Boy of Flanders, ' in which I was making my debut in the tiniest Httle part ever. We gut pally off the sets, used to play games to- gether in the studio between shots i --and scrap, too.
"Well, after that we niet on and off, but never again in a picture. Then suddenly we were grown up. I was a young woman and he was the nicest young man I'd ever met
and we realised we were love.
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"Actually, you know, we've been engaged for more than a month, though we kept it secret"
"Jackie popped the question which got my 'yes' and me the ring, just before I left Hollywood to make a film in Canada. Inst month.-I-suppose we both felt 'being engaged would be some con- solation for being apart.
"Mind you," she went on, very determined, "we're not going to be married for a year. I've not my career to think of
Jackie came into possession of about £200,000, the proceeds of
his career as a child actor, on his 21st birthday,
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"For years I have wanted to measure the gravity of the curth in different parts of the world more accurately than it has ever been measured before. I as- sembled the necessary #p-
but that paratus
was enough.
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not
"Then my Government offer- ed me the use of a new sub- marine which was sailing for
our colonial possessions. We did more. We went to South America, Capetown and Aus- tralia.
"Whenever I wanted to make measurements with my maritime gravity apparatus I asked the sub- marine commander to submerge his ship.
Triangulations.
"My delicate apparatus then en- abled me to measure the curvature of the earth most accurately. I was able to make new triangula- {tions,
HIKING BISHOP
"I have found that continents and other land masses are not Garbett, recently started tour of Bishop of Winchester, Dr. Cyril F. shaped exactly as topographers diverse in North Hampshire. He have believed them to be plans to walk about twenty miles rack
shaped. The difference is day.
slight, but it is there.
"The earth as a whole is not.in equilibrium, but that need not wor-|
ry the man in the street.
Gunproof
"I shuit embody my researches Armour Plate
in a seientific paper, which will be
read to learned societies."
The professor says his work ie too technical for the lay Press. Belleve him, It is.
TOBY AND BOY FRIEND
going to marry Jackie 6
Coopan. Toby Wing."
I am not engaged to Toby Wing. -Jackie Congan.
never going to be anyone else for
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COOGAN'S “SHE MUST
BE KIDDING”.
en-
'Sacrifice To Goddess' Charge
this week accused of sacrific-
-Of Wood
RUSSIAN CLAIM
Warsaw, Oct. 1.
CLAIM to have in-
vented a method of chemically treating wood so that it becomes five times as hard as steel armour, plate was made by the Moscow wireless to-day.
NO ACCIDENT IN
40 YEARS
P. AND O. COMMODORE RETIRES
Qua
Twice shipwrecked On journey at the age of 18, Captain Reginald H. Stringer, commodare of the-P, and O, fleet, retired last month under the age limit after 40 years' service with the com- pany.
During his service with the P. and 0. Captain Stringer has travelled more than treo and a half million miles, and while in charge of a liner has never had an accident.
His tust command war the Rawalpindi (10,097 tons). He was succeeded as commodore by Captain E. J. Thornton, captain of the Viceroy of India (18,027 (018).
WOMAN CALLS. GIRLS SNOBS
SOCIAL STANDING
FIXED BY WORK
The effects of snobbishness among girls according to their Occupations and its results on their club life, and a suggestion that the girls' club movement might offer greater opportunities than at present to unemployed girls and young women are" matters referred to in a London report on "Youth and Leisure." by Miss Madeline Rooff.
The report was made on behalf of the National Council of Girls' Clubs, under the auspices of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust.
"The development of industry," states Miss Rooff, "by shortening the hours of work is bringing greater leisure to un increasingly large number of workers, and Inventions are bringing greater facilities for recreation within the range of all.
"Experience show," she states, "that much delinquency is the result of an overflow of high spirits which can find no outlet in normal channels, Records point to an increase in delinquency, on Sundays, when there is nothing to do. Chief Constables look upon clubs as good police work." It was slgnificant to notice, the report states, the importance of the part played by status-the social stand- measured by the type of ein- ployment.
Social Grading tory girls; workers on
Office girls do not mix with fac- one pro- cèss consider themselves superior to those on another; girls who do
the rougher kind of work, particu-
larly if it is dirty, are regarded as inferior in social standing, even though their wages may be higher.
"A girl doing typing," ndils the report, "is thought socially. su- perior to the factory worker, who herself feels superior to the do- mestic worker.
"These differences ara Bomo- times associated, with differences in needs and choice of pastime."
WOMAN is on trial in India Hollywood is puzzled about ing two girls to the Goddess of the romance of the 19-years-old Wealth. blonde film actress and Jackie
Colonel Kolka Serow, doctor Coogan, the one time child star, The woman, named Bai, was of science and member of the This is what has happened: arrested by order of the Nizam Soviet general staff, has made Said Toby Wing: I am wearing of Hyderabad, premier prince of this new material. It is claim Jackie Coogan's engagement ring and the country."
ed, that it will make the Red we will be married in a year or so.
Air Force machines immune Said Jackie Coogan: Toby must be kidding,
Bat has informed the police that from anti-aircraft gunfire, gr to her or while she was superintending the 1 am not enges be anyone else, Goah!
Fireproof Too "gaged to Toby. I'm not 21 yet (the building of her new house at Tim- legal age for marrying in. California "volcos"
The wood grows In the Ural mapur, in the Nizam's Dominion Mountains. After treatment,
told her that untold
Cinemas and dance halls gaily this all abogan: Mercy!
Jackie was never wealth would be hers if she made wooden plate half an inch thick is engaged to anyone. He and Toby are a suitable sacrifice to the Goddess said to show the same resistance decorated with comfortable and the best of friends. She comes.over of Wealth.
as a 21⁄2-inch steel plate, while Inexpensive seats probably, owed occasionally and they go out once In
atill retaining all the lightness of their popularity largely to the fact that they offered an attractive Such plates, according to the mooting place, often the only possi- announcer, have already shown ble rendezvous for young people. themselves capable of standing ... For many, the "pictures" up indefinitely to machine-gun were merely "somewhere to go." fire at a distance of 200 yards. If girls are to play a worthy part Tho chemical treatment is in the life of the community it is. stated to boy difcult and expen-important that they should have. They are also non-inflammable. the opportunity of meeting their alvo. There is no immediate boy friends in a natural and heal- prospect of large-scale production: thy comradeship,
Said Mrs.
a while, not very often, though. But She is alleged to
have asked wood.
marriage is out of the question. Why, two beautiful young girls to hor Jackie is still going to school! house. As she was a woman of
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Bald Jackie Coogan; of mise, and position the girls went and were gave Toby is an old ring of
of mine, it her when she went to Toron-given wine in the presence of the
I gave to recently to appear in a film. The idol ring just a token of friendship.
I can't understand. Toby for saying The wine, it is alleged, was we are engaged. Guess I'll have to drugged, and the next day the kid her about it when I sou her to- girls bodies were found in the
street:
"I am Jackie's first and only girl--and he is my boy There's morrow night
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ON THE STAGE--
THE CHING LING FOO TROUPE
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SHE SHOT THE WORKS FOR THE MAN SHE LOVED! She was his guardian angel...pro. tacting him against the ruthless fais“ thol clipped his wingst The gloriously; human story of a woman so desperate- · ly in love the risked her life to prove it!
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